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| About this Book | |
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| Guide to Learning Features | |
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| Guide to the Online Resource Centre | |
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| Political Map of the World, April 2008 | |
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| Studying IR | |
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| Why Study IR? | |
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| International Relations in Everyday Life | |
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| Brief Historical Sketch of the State System | |
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| The Global State System and the World Economy | |
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| IR and the Changing Contemporary World of States | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| IR as an Academic Subject | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Utopian Liberalism: The Early Study of IR | |
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| Realism and the Twenty Years' Crisis | |
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| The Voice of Behaviouralism in IR | |
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| Neoliberalism: Institutions and Interdependence | |
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| Neorealism: Bipolarity and Confrontation | |
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| International Society: The English School | |
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| International Political Economy (IPE) | |
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| Dissident Voices: Alternative Approaches to IR | |
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| Which Theory? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Classical Theories | |
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| Realism | |
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| Introduction: Elements of Realism | |
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| Classical Realism | |
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| Thucydides | |
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| Machiavelli | |
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| Hobbes and the Security Dilemma | |
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| Morgenthau and Classical Realism | |
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| Schelling and Strategic Realism | |
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| Waltz and Neorealism | |
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| Mearsheimer, Stability Theory, and Hegemony | |
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| Neoclassical Realism | |
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| Rethinking the Balance of Power | |
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| Two Critiques of Realism | |
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| Research Prospects and Programme | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Liberalism | |
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| Introduction: Basic Liberal Assumptions | |
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| Sociological Liberalism | |
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| Interdependence Liberalism | |
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| Institutional Liberalism | |
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| Republican Liberalism | |
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| Neorealist Critiques of Liberalism | |
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| The Retreat to Weak Liberalism | |
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| The Counter-attack of Strong Liberalism | |
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| Liberalism and World Order | |
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| Liberalism: The Current Research Agenda | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| International Society | |
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| Basic International Society Approach | |
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| The Three Traditions | |
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| Order and Justice | |
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| Empire and World Society | |
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| Statecraft and Responsibility | |
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| National Responsibility | |
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| International Responsibility | |
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| Humanitarian Responsibility | |
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| Humanitarian Responsibility and War | |
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| Critiques of International Society | |
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| The Current Research Agenda | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| International Political Economy: Classical Theories | |
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| Introduction: What is IPE? | |
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| Mercantilism | |
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| Economic Liberalism | |
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| Marxism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Contemporary Approaches and Debates | |
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| International Political Economy: Contemporary Debates | |
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| The Relationship between Politics and Economics: The Debate on US Hegemonic Stability | |
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| Development and Underdevelopment in the Developing World | |
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| Economic Globalization and a Changing Role for States | |
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| Recent Theoretical Developments in IPE | |
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| Conclusion: The Future of IPE | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Social Constructivism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Rise of Constructivism in IR | |
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| Constructivism as Social Theory | |
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| Constructivist Theories of International Relations | |
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| Cultures of Anarchy | |
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| Norms of International Society | |
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| The Power of International Organizations | |
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| A Constructivist Approach to European Cooperation | |
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| Domestic Formation of Identity and Norms | |
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| Critiques of Constructivism | |
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| The Constructivist Research Programme | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Post-positivism in IR | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Post-structuralism in IR | |
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| Post-colonialism in IR | |
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| Feminism in IR | |
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| Critique of Post-positivist Approaches | |
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| The Post-positivist Research Programme | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| The Concept of Foreign Policy | |
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| Foreign Policy Analysis | |
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| How to Study Foreign Policy: A Level-of-Analysis Approach | |
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| The Systemic Level | |
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| The Level of the Nation-state | |
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| The Level of the Individual Decision Maker | |
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| Going to War in the Persian Gulf: A Case-study | |
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| A Note on Experts and 'Think Tanks' | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Policy and Issues | |
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| Key Issues in Contemporary IR | |
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| Introduction | |
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| International Terrorism | |
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| Religion in IR: A Clash of Civilizations? | |
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| The Environment | |
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| New Patterns of War and Peace: Changes in Statehood | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Points | |
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| Questions | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |